{"id":2981,"date":"2013-10-25T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2013-10-26T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T16:06:09","slug":"how-the-corporate-media-distorts-and-manipulates-news-and-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/how-the-corporate-media-distorts-and-manipulates-news-and-information\/","title":{"rendered":"How the corporate media distorts and manipulates \u2018news\u2019 and information"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in Intrepid Report on\u00a0October 25, 2013<\/a>
\nBy\u00a0Larry Pinkney<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe media\u2019s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that\u2019s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.\u201d<\/strong>
\n \u2014Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz]<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.\u201d<\/strong>
\n \u2014Howard Zinn<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The U.S. corporate-stream media embodied by ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, MSNBC, PBS, CNN and the major print media, etc., repeatedly and overwhelmingly demonstrates that it is the mortal enemy of truth and concomitantly of everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in this nation and throughout Mother Earth.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the corporate-stream media is to\u00a0manipulate, shape, and actually form the opinion<\/em>\u00a0of everyday people\u2014not to honestly and holistically\u00a0inform<\/em>\u00a0everyday people and stimulate critical thought. The corporate-stream \u2018news\u2019 media constantly uses a combination of\u00a0crucial omissions, gossip, and outright lies<\/em>\u00a0to deceive and manipulate the opinions of its viewers and readers. In fact the most dangerous threat to the corporate-stream media would be a well-informed and critically thinking populace. Thus, all measures are utilized to keep people misinformed, woefully ignorant, divided, and malleable.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the corporate-stream media is, in reality, the propaganda arm for the national and global power elite and the corporate-owned U.S. government; and it functions to\u00a0perpetuate<\/em>\u00a0the de facto systemic status quo under the fake guise of presenting relevant and honest \u2018news\u2019 and information to everyday people. Nothing could be further from the truth, and no genuine democracy can exist and function without a well-informed and thinking populace.<\/p>\n

A blatant example of precisely how the corporate-stream media\u00a0distorts and outright lies<\/em> to the populace was amply demonstrated by the utter disfiguration of the truth on the part of MSNBC\u2019s Rachel Maddow, pertaining to the October 13, 2013, Veterans March At The Capital. INFOWARS news anchor Darrin McBreen, does a brilliant job of exposing, in this instance, the outright lies by MSNBC.\u00a0Do<\/em>\u00a0take the very few minutes required to watch and listen to this short but powerful and informative clip [MSNBC Caught Framing Vets With Edited Video\u2014YouTube<\/a>].<\/p>\n

The corporate-stream media has no compunction whatsoever about lying, distorting, and\/or omitting pertinent and important information. In fact, these tactics are the arsenal which is used incessantly against everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people. The bigger the lie the more the media propagates it.<\/p>\n

The insidious tactics of the corporate-stream media are not always blatant. They are often covert and\/or subliminal. For example, the corporate so-called \u2018entertainment\u2019 industry often engages in propagating subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) pro-war and\/or pro-corporate messages to vulnerable and unsuspecting audiences who think that they are merely being entertained, but who are, in fact, being lulled into a state of lethargy while unconsciously being programmed\u2014all\u00a0in the name of<\/em>\u00a0simply being innocently \u2018entertained.\u2019 It should be remembered that the giant entertainment industry is, in very large part, also a component of the corporate-stream \u2018news\u2019 and information media.<\/p>\n

The corporate-stream media further perpetuates the status quo by fostering the fallacious left\/right paradigm as embodied by the corporate-owned Democrat and Republican parties. This serves to keep ordinary people divided, in fear of one another, and perpetually manipulated and enslaved on the Democrat and Republican party\u2019s political plantations.<\/p>\n

Dependence upon the corporate-stream media for news and information is akin to taking repeated doses of arsenic to extend one\u2019s life. Such a thing would be suicidal. But we do not<\/em>\u00a0have to be suicidal.<\/p>\n

We the everyday people, must be\u00a0our own<\/em>\u00a0collective news and information media. It is imperative that we understand that the corporate-stream media is poison, intended to stifle and destroy our consciences, our consciousness, and our ability to critically think and analyze. WE hold the key to our own liberation\u2014politically, mentally, and spiritually, etc.<\/p>\n

The objective of the corporate-stream media today is to propagate the constant lies and subterfuge on the part of the war mongering, drone man, \u2018Kill List,\u2019 Barack Obama and his corporate-owned Democrat and Republican co-conspirators. And it does NOT matter who is sitting in the White House\u2014Democrat or a Republican\u2014black or white (or whatever color)\u2014male or female.<\/p>\n

To reiterate: The objective of the corporate-stream media, which is the propaganda arm of and for the power elite, is to reinforce and perpetuate the de facto status quo.<\/p>\n

Our task is to create and become our own media. We do this by beginning at our own local levels, and simultaneously linking with one another\u2014nationally and globally with our sisters and brothers throughout Mother Earth. We must form our own media collectives and tell our own stories to and with one another. We must use the technology (of the Internet and the like) to mutually<\/em>\u00a0serve, enlighten, inspire, and inform humankind\u2014not stifle and smother humanity.<\/p>\n

We each have something of importance to offer.<\/em>\u00a0It\u2019s time to get and stay creatively and collectively busy in this most important struggle of the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century.<\/p>\n

Remember: Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Onward!
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